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' I KNITTED FABRIC. APPLICATION TILED MAR.8, 1913.

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JOSEF KELLNER, OF BROOKLYN, AND SIDNEY'WORMS, OF NEW ROCHELLE, NEW

.YORK, ASSIGNOBS TO FRANKLIN KNITTING MILLS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A GOR- PORATION OF NEW YORK.

KNITTED FABRIC.

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Specification of Letters Iatent.

Application filed March 8, 1913. Serial No. 752,902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be'it known that we, JosnnKELLNER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and SlDNEY WoRMs, -a citizen of the United States, residing, respectively, at Brooklyn, in the count of Kings and State of New York, and ew Rochelle, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in KnittedFabrics, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to knitted fabrics, the object of the invention being to provide an improved knitted fabric adapted for various uses, but particularly adapted for use in the manufacture of neckwear.

In the drawings accompanying and form-i ing a part of this specification, Figure 1 illustrates on a very much enlarged scale, a portion of this improved knitted fabric as well as the same canbe illustrated by pen and ink drawings, and Fig. 2 is an edge view of a part of the fabric shown in Fig. 1.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

This fabric is knitted in the manner shown and described in my contemporaneously pending allowed application, Serial No 721,600, filed .September 21, 1912, and allowed February 11, 1913, now Patent No. 1,072,856, dated September 9th, 1913, from which it will briefly appear that the fabric is knitted flat on what is known as a flat knitting machine by racking or shogging, as for instance the rear needle bed in a certain manner, and durin the knitting, placing the fabric under a di erential tension, so that one portion or side of the fabric will be under greater tension than another portion or side thereof. In other words, so that greater tension will be given to the fabric along one side than is given along the other,

and thus prevent the stitches or loops at one 45.

side from interfering with one another by reason of their looseness, the greatest tension being given on that side where the loops would otherwise be loose and thus prevent the loops from backing up on the needles and interfering with the operation ofthe machine. Thus we obtain a fabric 2 knitted on the bias; that is to say the thread loops 3 run and unravel on the bias, although the desired intervals a thread of a different or contrasting color or colors, the knitted fabric is provided with a stripe or stripes 6 of a different or contrasting color or colors, or shades of color, as may be desired, located on a true or substantially true bias; since the thread loops hereinbefore mentioned are thus located'on 'a true or substantially true bias. Thus we provide a true bias knitted fabric which may have therein a stripe or stripes of a different color or shade from the body of the fabric itself, and which stripe or stripes are also located on a true or substantially true bias. These stripes during the knitting are apparently located in arallelism and horizontally across the wor yet when the work is removed from the machine the stripes are on a true or substantially true bias and this without the necessity of stretching the fabric out of shape, so that there is no tendency of the fabric after it is finished to curl or assume any other position than its proper normal one. The fabric has all of its threads of substantially the same tightness or looseness on both sides thereof and this is also true of the thread loops forming the stripes so that when the fabric is furnished, with knitted stripes therein these stripes have substantiallythe same appearance on both sides of the fabric and therefore have the same continuous or solid colors on both sides, so that the loops are not flowing or loose on one side, and tight on the other. In consequence the fabric could be used the wrongside out if it were so desired in many instances.

We claim as our'invention:

1. As an article of manufacture,'a bias flat knitted complete fabric of suflicient length to enable it toserve a useful purpose in the manufacture of an article of commerce having lengthwise extending selvage side edges and having the stitches all running in. the same direction and made with one side under greater tension than the other.

2. As an article of manufacture, a bias Patented July 14-, 1914.

fiat knitted fabric having lengthwise extending selvage edges having knitted therein a bias stripe of a contrasting color or colors.

3. As an article of manufacture, a flat knitted complete fabric having lengthwise extending selvage edges having knitted therein one or more substantially true bias stripes each of a contrasting color or colors from the body of the fabric.

4. As an article of manufacture, a bias flat knitted fabric having straight or unsealloped lengthwise extending selvage side edges from end to end thereof and; having knitted therein one or more substantially true bias stripes each of a contrasting color or colors from the body of the knitted fabric, the stitches of said body and stripe or stripes all running in the same direction.

5. As an article of manufacture, a knitted fabric having lengthwise extending selvage edges and having all of the thread loops thereof running on a bias and having a stripe or stripes knitted therein of a contrasting color or colors, all of the thread loops of said stripe or stripesalso running on a bias and in the same direction as the stitches of the other portion of the fabric.

6. As an article of manufacture, a bias fiat knitted fabric having lengthwise extending selvage edges and having lengthwise extending wales and horizontal courses, the

thread loops of which fabric run on a substantially true bias, said fabric having therein'one or more stripes of a contrasting color or. colors likewise located on a bias.

Signed at New York, Y., this 6th day of March, 1913.

a J OSEF KELLNER. SIDNEY WORMS. Witnesses:

H. E. FRIEND, JACQUES ,H. HEoH'r, 

